Dana Jones-Martin

Instructors play a crucial role in careating an engaging learning environment. They should know their students' preferred learning and intelligence styles, and how to connect with them. We've all experienced teaching that needed to be more exciting and relevant. This could be becaue it was delivered by an instructor unaware of their own learning and teahing style or their students' learning and intelligance styles.

Teaching adult learners requires varying learning tools. Facilitators must add hands-on activities to aid information retention.

Writing helps to organize our thoughts and communication skills. 

Critical thinking is an ongoing developmental skill needed to provide best-practice nursing care.

Understanding that the adult brain does not reach maturation until age 25 gave me a better perspective on how adult learners process and retain information. 

I have learned the importance of how to encourage others through extrinsic and intrinsic motivations and how it contributes to the successful outcome of student education

It is exciting to know how presenting the same content in six different way help learners retain 90% of information over 30 days, leading to a more substantial building block of knowledge.   

Greeting the students by name helps build rapport and allows the instructor to give positive and constructive feedback. Also, it gives students the confidence to engage in the learning process.

Having a clear understanding of the student's intrinsic need will aid in the development to create the extrinsic environment for the best student success outcome. 

It was good to know I was on the right track with students disengaged and wanting to give up can be remotivated and inspired to finish the course. I will try using the five-colored card with my most active student because I was having a hard time controlling that kind of behavior without hampering that person's class participation.